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LSA Voyager GAN Amplifier

Just got mine last week.  After 24 hours of play all I can say is that this is not your father's class D amplifier.  There is not one thing about its sound that reminds me of the class D gremlins that I do not like.  The low end filled in and now has deep impact, the midrange is the love child of a beautiful tube and clean hybrid amp - just gorgeous.  Highs are very clean and extended. Spatial cues are top notch. My system has had some damn good tube and solid state amps in it before and it has never sounded this good.  I am blown away with the quality of sound coming from class D amplification at this price point.

This 300 wpc amplifier is a real winner.....
jaymark
tweak1
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Well.... according to UPS, my GaN is out for delivery. Once it's warmed up, supposedly already broken in, I will start my own thread comparing/contrasting to my EVS 1200
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grannyring
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Great news ! 
yyzsantabarbara
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I have over 100 hours on the Voyager now. I started listening again this morning after I let it burn-in for a few days.

It does not have the big balls bass of the KRELL K-300i, that I have in the room, but the Voyager is sounding great in it's own way. A little sharper sound than the KRELL whereas the KRELL is little rounder. There is also more decay in Cymbals now with the Voyager.  As I said before I feel the amp sounds fast to me. I am really engaged with this amp. There is a hint of hardness still on top that is not there with the AHB2, KRELL, or CODA #8. However, given the rate at which this amp is getting better with burn-in, that may go away or maybe with @ricevs mods.

Once I get the Voyager modded I should decide between the KRELL and Voyager. I could get better speaker cables if I sold off one of these units.
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jaymark OP
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The Voyager in my system has lost virtually all hardness on the top end,  except on the rare recording.  It is being driven by the Sachs tube preamp.  I concur that it does not have balls to the wall bass like some behemoth class A amps that I have.  Nevertheless, the bass is just fine and is impactful.  I am now close to 175 hours on the amp.  And I am not itching to get the Pass Labs X250.5 back in there.  The PassLabs is one fine amp - solid state done right.
yyzsantabarbara
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I did some head-to-head comparison today with the KRELL and the Voyager with my favourite music. Today, I enjoyed the Voyager more than the KRELL even though the KRELL seemed more powerful. Surprisingly, the better bass on the KRELL worked against it because I noticed it was a bit too much for my small room. The room is treated and I use DSP on streaming. I could fix that but not interested in doing that now.
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